{"id":207110,"date":"2026-05-31T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207110\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:29:09","slug":"nj-pen-2026-primary-election-meet-the-democratic-candidates-for-oaklyn-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207110\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Pen 2026 Primary Election: Meet the Democratic Candidates for Oaklyn Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"ad-hosted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/ads\/vsj-down-and-derby-wine-festival\/\" aria-label=\"VSJ \u2013 Down and Derby Wine Festival\" role=\"link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Down-and-Derby-Wine-Fest-desktop-728x90-1.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"940\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-Oaklyn-Council-Democratic-Primary-Candidates.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t2026 Oaklyn Council Democratic Primary Candidates. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">In the 2026 Primary Election, three Democratic candidates are running for two available spots on the ballot in the November General Election for Oaklyn Borough Council. (No Republican candidate has filed a petition seeking office.) We invited them to share a bit about themselves with voters ahead of Tuesday\u2019s vote. Here&#8217;s how they responded.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMatt Skoufalos\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMay 31, 2026\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Oaklyn Council Democratic Primary Candidates. Credit: Matt Skoufalos. In the 2026 Primary Election, three Democratic candidates are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[90997,90998,90999,91000,62334,62337,91001,91002,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-207110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-2026-oaklyn-primary-elections","tag-chelsea-gittle","tag-david-galpern","tag-dot-valianti","tag-matt-skoufalos","tag-njpen","tag-oaklyn-borough-council","tag-oaklyn-elections","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}